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Bartley Healthcare's Dedication to Continuous Quality Improvement Earns Recognition

JACKSON, NJ AUGUST 23, 2007 - Bartley Healthcare is one of three long-term care facilities in New Jersey that has earned a Quality Award from the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and the National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL) for demonstrating its strong commitment to continuous quality improvement.

Bartley Healthcare received a 2007 Step I Quality Award. All of the facilities that applied for this award addressed how they integrated the elements of systematic continuous quality improvement into their operations. As a Step I recipient, Bartley Healthcare demonstrated its organization-wide commitment to a person-centered mission, defined its principal customers and their expectations, and indicated how it is striving to meet their needs.

Established in 1985, Bartley Healthcare, a 230 bed comprehensive healthcare facility located in suburban Jackson, New Jersey, provides long term, subacute, outpatient rehabilitation, hospice, and respite care. Bartley Healthcare is situated on 20 acres of a beautifully landscaped campus with the Orchards at Bartley, the Assisted Living residence that won the 2006 Step I Quality Award.

“Our Quality Award is the most prestigious recognition of quality within the long term care profession,” stated AHCA/NCAL President and CEO, Bruce Yarwood. “This facility's achievement places it at the forefront of organizational and performance excellence, where the mission of quality care for the elderly and disabled is vigorously pursued.”

“Bartley Healthcare's achievement shows that dedicated frontline caregivers, administrators, nurses and physicians are demonstrating their commitment to quality of care and to meeting residents' needs,” continued Yarwood. The Quality Awards are part of AHCA/NCAL's Quality First, an initiative to demonstrate the long term care community's commitment to a person-centered environment of quality and choice.
AHCA/NCAL's Quality Award was created in 1996 and is modeled after the criteria of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's premier award recognizing distinguished achievements. AHCA/NCAL's award is designed to support both continuous quality improvement efforts in long term care by promoting quality awareness and education and to recognize quality achievements.

A ceremony for award recipients will be held during AHCA/NCAL's Annual Convention and Exposition, October 7-10, in Boston, MA.

The American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living are the nation's leading long term care organizations. AHCA/NCAL and their membership are committed to performance excellence and Quality First, a covenant for healthy, affordable and ethical long term care. AHCA/NCAL represent nearly 11,000 non-profit and proprietary facilities dedicated to continuous improvement in the delivery of professional and compassionate care provided daily by caring employees to more than 1.5 million of our nation's frail, elderly and disabled citizens who live in nursing facilities, assisted living residences, subacute centers and homes for persons with mental retardation and developmental disabilities